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Henri, comte de Chambord

Henri
Count of Chambord
Henri dArtois by Adeodata Malatesta.jpg
Later portrait by Adeodata Malatesta
King of France and Navarre (disputed)
as Henry V
Tenure 2 August 1830 – 9 August 1830
(Non proclaimed)
Predecessor Charles X
Louis XIX (non proclaimed)
Successor Louis Philippe I
as King of the French
Legitimist pretender to the French throne
Pretendence 3 June 1844 – 24 August 1883
Predecessor Louis XIX
Successor

Legitimist division:

Born (1820-09-29)29 September 1820
Tuileries Palace, Paris, France
Died 24 August 1883(1883-08-24) (aged 62)
Frohsdorf, Austria-Hungary
Burial Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Spouse Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este
Full name
Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d'Artois, duc de Bordeaux
House Bourbon
Father Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry
Mother Princess Carolina of Naples and Sicily
Religion Roman Catholic
Full name
Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d'Artois, duc de Bordeaux

Legitimist division:

Henri of Artois, Count of Chambord (Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d'Artois, duc de Bordeaux, comte de Chambord; 29 September 1820 – 24 August 1883) was disputedly King of France from 2 to 9 August 1830 as Henri V, although he was never officially proclaimed as such. Afterwards, he was the Legitimist pretender to the throne of France from 1844 to 1883.

Henri was the posthumous son of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, younger son of Charles X of France, by his wife, Princess Carolina of Naples and Sicily, daughter of King Francis I of the Two Sicilies. As the grandson of the King Charles X of France, Henri was a Petit-Fils de France. He also was the last legitimate descendant in the male line of Louis XV of France.

Henri was born on 29 September 1820, in the Pavillon de Marsan, a portion of the Tuileries Palace which still survives in the compound of the Louvre Palace in Paris. His father, the duc de Berry, had been assassinated seven months before his birth. At the actual moment of Henri's birth, no member of the French court was present in the room; this enabled the supporters of Louis Philippe, duc d'Orléans to later spread the canard that Henri was not in fact a French prince.

At birth, Henri was given the title of duc de Bordeaux. Because of his posthumous birth when the senior line of the House of Bourbon appeared about to become extinct, he was given the name Dieudonné ("God-given"). Royalists called him "the miracle child".


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